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...Parisian emergency services have already come under fire from TIME correspondents Tom Sancton and Scott MacLeod, whose book "Death of a Princess: The Investigation" reveals how Diana might have survived, had it not taken two hours to transport her to hospital. Also accused of tardiness is French magistrate Hervé Stephan, whose investigators did not debrief Petel until more than five months after the accident. With a record like that, the investigation is starting to resemble a French Warren Report...
Indeed, some sense of growth in Andy would give the film a little more resonance than that of a well-made sitcom. It has good gags, and expert performances by Gene Saks as a dyspeptic manager and by Hervé Villechaize as a midget wrestler who refuses to think small. They offer intimations of a picture that might have been memorable instead of merely inoffensive...
...first, it appeared to French police like a case of straightforward, though exceptionally grand larceny. Early last July, Hervé de Vathaire, 49, the chief accountant of France's huge Dassault conglomerate, strolled into the Banque Nationale de Paris and signed a withdrawal order on the personal account of his employer. The sum was unusually large: 8 million francs ($1.6 million) in 500-franc notes. Still, no one at the bank thought to question De Vathaire as he lugged two big suitcases out of the bank; after all, he had long been empowered to sign Industrialist Marcel Dassault...
...life at the farm in Angers, Quebec, where Filion was raised as one of ten children. His childhood, recalls a friend, was "three boys in a bed, two horses in a stall, that sort of thing." His father kept a few trotters on the farm, and Hervé practically grew up in a sulky seat. "When I was a kid," he recalls, "I used to run all the way home at lunchtime to work with the horses and then run back to school. I didn't play hockey like the other kids. I went to the barns, nowhere else...
...Hervé has been a fierce competitor ever since. Between 1957 and 1964, in fact, he was suspended nine times in the U.S. and Canada for various rule infractions committed in his zeal to win. The biggest blow came in 1965 when the U.S. Trotting Association lifted his license for "repeated violations"-cutting off other drivers, for example, and betting on races. Stunned, Filion reformed and was eventually reinstated by the U.S.T.A. Ever since he has performed like a man possessed. Last summer he was upended in a nasty three-sulky accident that left him with torn shoulder ligaments...